I have long felt that as a society we have lost our way. I also truly believe that a great deal of this is about parenting. We over parent our children to the point that they feel they are owed something. A friend is a nursery school teacher and she pointed me towards this article aptly named A Nation of Wimps.

I think that is an accurate name for what is going on in our society. Everyone is trying to protect their children to the point that we not allowing them to grow and mature.

Behold the wholly sanitized childhood without skinned knees or the occasional C in history. “Kids need to feel badly sometimes,” says child psychologist David Elkind, professor at Tufts University. “We learn through experience and we learn through bad experiences. Through failure we learn how to cope.”